On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:19:46AM EDT, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Vim's keybindings are completely insane and non-intuitive. I've never > once made sense of how to use the darned thing in a decade of using > gnu/linux.
'p' for 'paste' does strike me as rather more intuitive than Ctrl-V. But nothing stops you from remapping Vim's key bindings to suit your requirements - or to save yourself a giant headache, install something like this: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=300 Naturally, you could also consider giving "true" Vim a second chance. Never mind switching languages on the fly, the 2.0 version of nano that ships with debian "lenny" does not even let you change the default key bindings. ;-) To whet your appetite: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/spell.html [..] > I just want to be able to change languages on-the-fly, so to speak, > when using nano to write mails. (icedove, for instance, allows > altering the language with a click on a drop-down menu, and gmail's > online interface does the same). I have it working with aspell in the > default English. That was cake. My bad.. Actually, mutt _does_ let you invoke an external spell checker but only when you're about to send your message. So you could try adding something like this to your .muttrc: #----------------------------------------------------------------------- set my_br='aspell -c -l pt-br' set my_de='aspell -c -l de' set my_en='aspell -c -l en' set my_es='aspell -c -l es' set my_fr='aspell -c -l fr' set my_it='aspell -c -l it' set my_pt='aspell -c -l pt-pt' macro generic "<f3>" "<enter-command>set ispell='$my_br'<enter><ispell>" macro generic "<f4>" "<enter-command>set ispell='$my_de'<enter><ispell>" macro generic "<f5>" "<enter-command>set ispell='$my_en'<enter><ispell>" macro generic "<f6>" "<enter-command>set ispell='$my_es'<enter><ispell>" macro generic "<f7>" "<enter-command>set ispell='$my_fr'<enter><ispell>" macro generic "<f8>" "<enter-command>set ispell='$my_it'<enter><ispell>" macro generic "<f9>" "<enter-command>set ispell='$my_pt'<enter><ispell>" #----------------------------------------------------------------------- Not thoroughly tested, but appears to work on my system & mutt version. Compose and save, and prior to hitting 'y' to send your message, hit one of the F3-F9 function keys to launch aspell with the language set to one of the above. Maybe you could come up with a macro that binds a single key to all the defined languages and lets you cycle through them, while displaying the current selection, but I'd rather leave it at that for now. ;-) A different approach would be to write macros that set the value of the mutt $editor variable like so: set my_br='SPELL="aspell -l pt-br -c" nano' # Português (br) set my_fr='SPELL="aspell -l fr -c" nano' # Français macro generic "<f3>" "<enter-command>set editor='$my_br'<enter>" macro generic "<f4>" "<enter-command>set editor='$my_fr'<enter>" .. This would cause nano to be launched with the language set to Brazilian Portuguese (F3) or French (F4).. for all ensuing message composition, letting you access all features of the spell checker _while_ composing your message. HTH CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
